Israeli website Walla quoted a senior Israeli government minister (Cabinet) as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interested in promoting a partial Gaza hostage deal that would not require him to end the war.
Walla also quoted US officials as saying that US President Joe Biden stressed in a conversation yesterday Wednesday with Netanyahu the need to focus and maintain pressure to reach an agreement regarding detainees held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
Earlier, MSNBC quoted the US envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hockstein, as saying that President Biden had said that “if the Hamas movement (of the Islamic Resistance) wants to negotiate in good faith, there is an agreement that can be reached now “.
Biden also said Wednesday that his administration would make a new effort in the coming days with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and Israel to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, and added: “We are working to achieve an agreement that guarantees the release of the hostages and an end to the war in Gaza without Hamas in power. »
This comes after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect at dawn yesterday Wednesday, with hopes it will end the fighting that has lasted for more than a year and open the path to a similar agreement that would end the war on Gaza.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 149,000 Palestinians martyred and injured, mostly children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine which killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of humanity’s worst disasters.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to immediately end them, as well as orders from the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation there. Gaza.